It's a little dreary and cooler here, too, Vic, which made the photos much clearer this morning. Everything was suddenly a much darker blue around here.

Oh yeah, love those surprises.
Along with the clematis, here's another section of the back yard, also blue and white.

I also have roses blooming and when the daylilies start, it will all transform itself again, reds and yellows, corals and purples. No blues for the daylilies, though, so I need to enjoy this blue while I have it.

Believe me, this wasn't the plan. It just all happened, all blooming at the same time, which is really unusual. The irises, the columbine and the heuchera are all a month early and it's a little early for the dead rhody to be blooming too. I actually thought it would not bloom this year. So it's all in the timing, I think, and I didn't have a thing to do with that.

Beautiful Sharon. Mother Nature has been giving me surprises this year also. Everything is blooming a month early. Then last week my MIL's old tulips which I never did dig up bloomed for the first time since after her death 20 years ago. Things I didn't think made through our mild winter are suddenly sprouting leaves.

I'm now watching and waiting to see what else She has in store for me to enjoy.